Re: Mac for *testing* realbasic applications

[Jeremy Wood <jeremy@ensembledesigns.com>]

I would advise against this approach—even lightweight applications  
running under rosetta require a lot a RAM, because of the emulation  
overhead. The performance is fine, but the memory use can be quite  
obnoxious.
Jeremy Wood

On Dec 25, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Forrest W Christian wrote:
> The thought that occurred to me almost instantly after reading the  
> wikipedia article on rosetta is that perhaps I should just package  
> this for PPC since it is really very lightweight (5MB packaged, and  
> it spends most of it's time waiting for user and/or network input -  
> really, it's just a fancy data display tool)... And hopefully that  
> running under the PPC emulation on an Intel mac would actually have  
> fewer potential problems than having two separate, not as well  
> tested, applications.

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